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Another Patient Free of HIV

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March 5, 2019

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HIV — A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows HIV particles (orange) infecting a T cell, one of the white blood cells that play a central role in the immune system.

HIV/AIDS is a disease that disproportionately affects minorities in the U.S.A, Latino Gay men being one of those groups. Read about a patient who has been “cured” of his disease with bone marrow transplants.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/05/700361887/bone-marrow-transplant-renders-second-patient-free-of-hiv